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Kazemi S, Izadi-Jeiran A. Vital Decoration: The Cultural Aesthetics of Nakhlgardani Ritual of Abyane Village. CFL 2016; 4 (11) :109-128
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This article aims to study the aesthetics of Nakhlgardani ritual of “Abyane” village. Because of the migration of the young people from Abyane, a collection of natives is observable only in special situations as Nakhlgardani ritual. It is in such situations that we can study the life components of this culture with regard to its historical origins. This study aims to understand cultural aesthetics of Nakhlgardani ritual. To do this, we tend to answer these questions that, what are the aesthetics standards of “Abyane” culture? How these standards in Nakhlgardani ritual are used? This research has been done in field and for data collection we have applied interview, participant observation, photography, filming, oral history and historical image documents strategies.In the theoretical framework of anthropology, after analysis cultural analysis of the ritual components, we analyzed them in the whole ritual process. As the results of this research show, the main aesthetics standards of the people of Abyane are brilliance, harmony, balance and movement. Brilliant decoration in Abyane’s culture is equal to life and the separation from this decoration is equal to death. Thus, the function of the decorative art in Abyane society is creation and protection of the social life
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Received: 2015/08/1 | Accepted: 2016/11/9 | Published: 2016/11/12

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